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1 " I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof. "
― Mark Gatiss
2 " Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him. "
― Mark Gatiss , The Vesuvius Club (Lucifer Box, #1)
3 " History is a burden. Stories can make us fly. "
4 " A better time. A simpler time,' said the Doctor. 'That's what we all yearn for. The pain of wanting to belong somewhere. To go home. "
― Mark Gatiss , Doctor Who: Nightshade
5 " I've told you, I don't know!' bellowed the Doctor, angrily. 'I can't have an answer for everything.'Oh, that's a good one, thought Ace. "
6 " You know, the Elizabethans thought nostalgia was a diagnosable disease. Perhaps they were right. "
7 " I know that what's done … is done. No sense living in the past. The only way for me is forward. Always forward. "
8 " Any time, any place, any where. He's not called Doctor Martini, is he? "
9 " Amy: Hey, Paisley, Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?Bracewell: What? Amy: Hurts, doesn't it? But kind of a good hurt. "
10 " Do you believe in Evil, Mr Box?" said my companion, grinding his jaw and looking at the couple with unfeigned contempt."Only on Wednesdays. "
11 " When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics. "
12 " Travel, though it broadens the mind, narrows the life expectancy. "
― Mark Gatiss , Black Butterfly (Lucifer Box, #3)
13 " One man's fish is another man's poisson. "
14 " Doctor: 'I am not a hero."Robin Hood: 'Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may those stories never end. "
15 " It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it. "
16 " If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it. "
17 " All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think? "
18 " I've heard of such a legend!' I gasped. 'A child descended from a union between Christ and Mary Magdalene!' 'Don't be so fucking stupid,' snorted Mons. 'There's hundreds of those! "
― Mark Gatiss , The Devil in Amber (Lucifer Box, #2)
19 " He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him. "
20 " Me having the right to get married doesn’t take anything away from anyone else. Rights aren’t like cake: me having some doesn’t mean you get less. "
― Mark Gatiss , Queers: Eight Monologues
